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Royal Alston
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Larkin Royal Alston was an American college football coach. He served as the football coach at the Maryland Agricultural College in 1910. A native of Louisiana, he was born to Lafayette Volney and he attended Lake Charles High School, where he played on the football team for three years. He attended college at the George Washington University where he studied mechanical engineering and he played as a tackle on the football team and served as team captain in 1909. In 1910, the Maryland Agricultural College hired Alston as its head coach, the plan backfired, however, and Maryland lost both games, 8–0 and 6–0, respectively. The Aggies finished the season with a loss to Western Maryland, Alston did not return to Maryland for a second season as head coach. Royal Alston at the College Football Data Warehouse

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1910 Navy Midshipmen football team
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The 1910 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1910 college football season. The team compiled an undefeated 8–0–1 record and were not scored upon, the annual Army–Navy Game was played on November 26,1910, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. After initially missing seven attempts at goal, Navy won by a 3 to 0 score on a kick by Jack Dalton. Two players from the 1910 Navy team received first-team honors on the 1910 College Football All-America Team, guard John Brown received first-team honors from The New York Sun, New York Herald, and Pittsburgh Leader. Jack Dalton received first-team honors from The New York Times, Brown and Dalton were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The 1910 season was Navys third with Lt. Frank D. Berrien as head coach, at the end of the 1910 season, Jack Dalton, the halfback who scored Navys only points against Army, was selected to serve as captain of the 1911 team

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1910 Florida football team
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The 1910 Florida football team represented the University of Florida during the 1910 college football season. The season was George E. Pyles second as the coach of the University of Florida football team. The team was captained by Earle Taylor, the only five-time letterman in school history, primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide. The season opened with a 23–0 defeat of the Gainesville Guards, Florida defeated Georgia Agricultural College 52–0. The seasons only blemish was a 13–0 loss to the Mercer Baptists and it was Floridas fourth consecutive loss to Mercer. It took until the half for Mercer to get going. A former player Roy Corbett sent a letter to The Gainesville Sun congratulating the 1928 team, carl Van Nesss research also posits Storter as the names origin. The starting lineup was Swanson, Wagner, Price, Storter, Barker, Robles, Boule, Edgerton, Tenney, Taylor, Florida faced The Citadel Bulldogs for the first time and won 6–2. Aside from the loss to Mercer, only The Citadel scored on the Gators when Dummy Taylor was trapped in the endzone for a safety, Dummy Taylor ran 55 yards for the touchdown. Florida beat the in-state rival Rollins College Tars 38–0 for the third consecutive meeting, Florida beat the College of Charleston Cougars 34–0. To close the season, Florida defeated the Columbia Athletic Club 33–0, its third successive shutout, the win for the Gainesville squad over it a Lake City institution, its former home, was the highlight of the season. University of Florida Football Vault, The History of the Florida Gators, the Gators, A Story of Florida Football

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University of Maryland, College Park
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Founded in 1856, the university is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference, the University of Marylands proximity to the nations capital has resulted in research partnerships with the Federal government. The operating budget of the University of Maryland during the 2009 fiscal year was projected to be approximately $1.531 billion, for the same fiscal year, the University of Maryland received a total of $518 million in research funding, surpassing its 2008 mark by $118 million. As of December 12,2012, the universitys Great Expectations campaign had exceeded $1 billion in private donations, on March 6,1856, the forerunner of todays University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College. Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a future U. S. Congressman, Calvert founded the school later that year. On October 5,1859, the first 34 students entered the Maryland Agricultural College, the school became a land grant college in February 1864. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers under Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson moved past the college on July 12,1864 as part of Jubal Earlys raid on Washington, D. C. By the end of the war, financial problems forced the administrators to sell off 200 acres of land, for the next two years the campus was used as a boys preparatory school. Following the Civil War, in February 1866 the Maryland legislature assumed half ownership of the school, the college thus became in part a state institution. By October 1867, the school reopened with 11 students, in the next six years, enrollment grew and the schools debt was paid off. In 1873, Samuel Jones, a former Confederate Major General, twenty years later, the federally funded Agricultural Experiment Station was established there. Morrill Hall was built the following year, on November 29,1912, a fire destroyed the barracks where the students were housed, all the schools records, and most of the academic buildings, leaving only Morrill Hall untouched. There were no injuries or fatalities, and all but two returned to the university and insisted on classes continuing. Students were housed by families in neighboring towns until housing could be rebuilt, a large brick and concrete compass inlaid in the ground designates the former center of campus as it existed in 1912. The state took control of the school in 1916, and the institution was renamed Maryland State College and that year, the first female students enrolled at the school. On April 9,1920, the became part of the existing University of Maryland, replacing St. Johns College. In the same year, the school on the College Park campus awarded its first PhD degrees. In 1925 the university was accredited by the Association of American Universities, by the time the first black students enrolled at the university in 1951, enrollment had grown to nearly 10,000 students—4,000 of whom were women

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District of Columbia
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing

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Catholic University Cardinals football
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The team played its first game in 1895 and was a major college team in the first half of the 20th century, into the 1940s. The football program was put on hiatus during World War II, in 1965, football returned to the university at the club level, and, in 1977, re-entered NCAA competition as part of Division III. The Cardinals have participated in the Division III playoffs three times in the late 1990s and have secured two ODAC championships, Catholics first known intercollegiate football game came on Thanksgiving Day, November 28,1895, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. They faced Mount Saint Marys, of six of the eleven Catholic players were alums. The Mountaineers scored a touchdown immediately before halftime to take a 4–0 lead, Catholic recovered a blocked field goal attempt and ran it back 92 yards for the equalizing score. Mount Saint Marys later pulled away with a safety and a touchdown with two-point kick, in the 1920s, the Catholic Red and Black became known as the Cardinals, sometimes expanded to the Flying Cardinals or, less often, the Fighting Cardinals. Brookland Stadium opened on October 4,1924, and helped to increase the prominence of the football team, in 1930, Catholic secured former Minnesota assistant Arthur Dutch Bergman as their new head coach. During his tenure, Bergman scheduled teams farther afield such as Detroit, DePaul, South Dakota State, in 1935, the Cardinals finished the regular season with a 7–1 record. The Catholic defense recorded three shutouts, allowed only 34 points, and no rushing touchdowns, the performance impressed the Orange Bowl committee enough for it to extend an invitation to play against Mississippi. During the game, Bill Adamaitis caught a pass for the first touchdown and he became the first of only three players to score both receiving and passing touchdowns in the same Orange Bowl. Ole Miss responded when Ned Peters ran for a 67-yard touchdown for a 13–6 halftime mark, in the second half, the Cardinals blocked a punt and returned it 20 yards for the score. Ole Miss recorded two touchdowns, but missed the penultimate extra point, which proved Catholics margin of victory. In 1939, Catholic achieved five shutouts in its 8–1 regular season record and they faced Tempe Normal Teachers College in the 1940 Sun Bowl. The result was a stalemate, unusual in the fact that the teams had scored a total of 512 points during the season. After the game, both claimed to have the superior team to the media. Dixie Howell of Tempe said, I believe we had the better team, and would have won if we had gotten a break at the right time. Bergman responded, Tempe is a fast, powerful team, I think we are capable of beating Tempe six days out of the week. During that game Washington Redskins player and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Wayne Millner served as an assistant coach, from 1941 to 1946, football was discontinued due to World War II

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George Washington Colonials football
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The teams home field in the final seasons was D. C. Stadium, shared with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League, the Colonials were most successful between the 1930s and 1950s, when they regularly played top-level competition. George Washington made one bowl appearance, at the end of the 1956 season at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. The football program was discontinued after the 1966 season due to a number of factors, including the lack of an on-campus stadium. The earliest recorded football games at Columbian University were five contests against Gallaudet, on November 8,1890, football resumed when Columbian defeated a Washington-based club, Kalorama AC, 10–0. The team played off and on until 1920 and that season was not a successful one for George Washington, which finished 1–6–1, including a defeat at the hands of West Virginia, 81–0, and West Virginia Wesleyan, 101–7. H. Watson Maud Crum became the football and basketball coach in 1924. He was the first to remain in position with the Hatchetites for more than four years. In 1928, the athletic teams were renamed the Colonials. That year they were routed by Penn State, 50–0, head coach James Possum Jim Pixlee took over the following season and led GW to a 0–8 record. Pixlee, however, later became George Washingtons winningest coach in terms of number of wins, in 1930, GW routed the New York Aggies, 86–0. In the 1930s and 1940s, GW gained nationwide attention and scheduled top competition. The Colonials lost, 28–6, but that year they beat Iowa, 21–6. From 1933 to 1935, back Alphonse Tuffy Leemans set school records with 1,054 single-season rushing yards,2,382 career rushing yards,207 single-season carries, and 490 career carries. After college, he became a two-time All-NFL player for the New York Giants and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. From 1938 to 1941, William Reinhart, the Colonials winningest baseball and basketball coach, the football team, however, was mediocre under him, and, from 1943 to 1945, was discontinued due to World War II. Andy Davis played as GW quarterback from 1948 to 1951, in 1952, the Colonials defeated Bucknell, 21–7, with the help of a block punt, an interception, and a fumble recovery. The loss was Bucknells second in their past 20 games, George Washington was a member of the Southern Conference for many years

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Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
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The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays are the athletic teams that represent Johns Hopkins University. They compete in the NCAA Division III, except for their lacrosse teams and they are primarily members of the Centennial Conference. The team colors are Columbia blue and black, and the blue jay is their mascot, Homewood Field is the home stadium. Hopkins celebrates Homecoming in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season, the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, governed by US Lacrosse, is located on the Homewood campus and is adjacent to Homewood Field. Past Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States in international competition, at the 1932 Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration event Hopkins played for the US. They have also gone to Melbourne, Australia to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship, originally, the Johns Hopkins athletes were not called Blue Jays but the Black and Blue, a nickname derived from their athletic colors. Hopkins archivist James Stimpert has theorized that the Blue Jay name stemmed from Hopkins student humor magazine, The Black and Blue Jay, the Black and Blue came from the athletic colors and the Jay most likely stood for first initial in Johns Hopkins. The rivalry with Maryland is the most prominent in college lacrosse, on June 3,2013, it was announced that Johns Hopkins would be joining the Big Ten Conference as a Sport Affiliate member in Mens Lacrosse starting in 2015. The Blue Jays Mens soccer team has won eight Centennial Conference Regular Season titles along with another four ECAC titles previously to joining the Centennial Conference in 1993, the team has reached the NCAA tournament 12 times in the programs history. The team is currently on a streak of 16 winning seasons and has had over 20 All-American selections, the Swimming team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. Hopkins also has a rivalry with McDaniel College, playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894. Johns Hopkins latest team to encounter postseason success is the baseball team. The Blue Jays finished runner-up to Trinity College, losing the championship game, the womens cross country team has experienced great success in recent years, finishing 7th at the NCAA championship in 2009 and 2010. The cross country and track & field teams have also had several All-American runners in the past few years, in 2012, the womens cross country team beat out top-ranked MIT to become the first womens program in Johns Hopkins history to win an NCAA championship. They also won the NCAA championship in 2013 and 2014, giving them 3 championships in just 8 appearances, the Johns Hopkins womens volleyball team won their 1st Centennial Conference Title in 2011. The volleyball team has 4 NCAA All-Americans

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VMI Keydets football
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The VMI Keydets football team represents the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The Keydets compete in the Southern Conference of the NCAA Division I FCS, VMI plays their home contests at 10, 000-seat Alumni Memorial Field, as they have since 1962. Historically VMIs biggest rival was Virginia Tech, today, VMIs biggest rival is the The Citadel, as the two teams have battled 70 times, with The Citadel leading the series 38–30–2. The winner of each receives an award known as the Silver Shako. The last contest occurred on November 22,2014, in which The Citadel rushed for nearly 400 yards en route to a 45–25 victory, in addition to The Citadel, VMI has minor rivalries with William & Mary and Richmond. The Tribe and the Keydets first met in 1908, and William & Mary leads that series 52–33–2, VMIs competition with Richmond goes back farther, to just their third year of existence. Richmond has won 41 games to VMIs 40, and the teams have tied five times, also, the Keydets have played Virginia and Virginia Tech 82 and 79 times, respectively. VMI football dates back to 1873 with a season, featuring a 4–2 loss to Washington. No player or coaching records are known from that game, the Keydets would not have another intercollegiate team until 1891 under coach Walter Taylor III. Taylor was the son of Walter H. Taylor, a Civil War lieutenant colonel, the Keydets went 3–0–1 in 1891, with a win and tie against Washington and Lee and defeats of St. Johns and Pantops Academy. VMI had two undefeated seasons in 1892 and 1894, and a total record of 32–10–2 during the 19th century. Although they were undefeated in 1899 by a virtue of a lone win over Washington & Lee. VMI continued to have success on the field during the early 1900s, ropers brief two-year tenure was highlighted by wins over NC State and Davidson. After several seasons of mediocrity, VMI returned to their ways in 1911 under Alpha Brummage. After Brummage left VMI for Kentucky, where he would become the football and basketball coach. VMI joined the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1918, many of the members of which formed the bulk of the Southern Conference after the disbandment in 1921. In 1920, Blandy Clarkson led VMI to its third of only four seasons with a 9–0 record. With the finished construction of Alumni Field in 1921, VMI football no longer needed to play on the Parade Ground situated in front of the barracks, the stadium was placed around the same place it is today, and was completed at a total cost of $69,000

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St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)
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St. Johns College is a private liberal arts college known for its distinctive curriculum centered on reading and discussing the Great Books of Western Civilization. It has two U. S. campuses, one in Annapolis, Maryland, and one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, St. Johns College is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. It traces its origins to King Williams School, a school founded in 1696. The school grants only one degree, in Liberal Arts. The Master of Arts in Eastern Classics is only available at the Santa Fe campus, the College has no religious affiliation. According to U. S. News & World Report, the Fall 2015 undergraduate acceptance rate was 78% in Annapolis, St. Johns College traces its origins to King Williams School, founded in 1696. In 1784, Maryland granted it a charter under a new name, St. Johns College, the college took up residence in a building known as Bladens Folly, which was originally built to be the Maryland governors mansion, but was not completed. There was some association with the Freemasons early in the colleges history, the College always maintained a small size, generally enrolling fewer than 500 men at a time. After years of inconsistent funding and litigation, the College accepted an annual grant in lieu of being funded through the states annual appropriations process. During the civil war, the closed and its campus was used as a military hospital. In 1907 it became the college of a loosely organized University of Maryland that included the professional schools located in Baltimore. By 1920, when Maryland State College became the University of Maryland at College Park, the College curriculum has taken various forms throughout its history. It began with a program of study in the liberal arts. It ended compulsory military training with Major Enoch Gareys accession as president in 1923, garey and the Navy instituted a Naval Reserve unit in September 1924, creating the first-ever collegiate Department of Naval Science in the United States. In 1936, the College lost its accreditation and they introduced a new program of study, which remains in effect today. Buchanan became dean of the College, while Barr assumed its presidency, thus this great institution was reborn as a survival measure. In 1940, national attention was attracted to St. Johns by a story in Life entitled The Classics, classic works unavailable in English translation were translated by faculty members, typed, mimeographed, and bound. The wartime years were difficult for the all-male St. Johns, enlistment and the draft all but emptied the college,15 seniors graduated in 1943, eight in 1945, and three in 1946

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McDaniel College
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McDaniel College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Westminster, Maryland, United States, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore. The college also has a campus, McDaniel College Budapest located in Budapest. Established in 1867, it was known as Western Maryland College until 2002 when it was renamed McDaniel College in honor of an alumnus who gave a lifetime of service to the college, the other schools retained their affiliations and won the case. The colleges first building went up in 1866-1867, with an class of 37 men and women in September 1867. Western Maryland was the first coeducational institution south of the Mason–Dixon line and was among the first in the nation. The schools original charter read that the school would exist, For the benefit of students without regard to race, religion, color, sex, however, Western Maryland College was primarily a school without minority race representation until the 1960s. Baker Memorial Chapel was dedicated April 20,1958, the chapel, was built in memory of W. G. Baker, Joseph D. Baker, Daniel Baker, and Sarah Baker. The chapel was designed by architects Otto Eugene Adams and E. G, the Chapel steeple,113 feet tall, is visible for miles around and was originally topped by a stainless steel cross 6 feet in height. The wood panels of the chancel have been designed to complement the antique organ console which was originally in the Bruton Parish Church, at Williamsburg, the organ, with its 2,310 pipes, is held to be the largest in the area. The Whitefords also gave the carillon installed in the steeple, McDaniel College Budapest, the European campus of McDaniel College was established in collaboration with College International Budapest in 1994. McDaniel College was also home to the training camp of the Baltimore Ravens NFL team until the 2011 Season when the team chose to relocate spring training to their Owings Mills facility. Newer buildings on campus include the Science Hall, gymnasium, library, on January 11,2002, the trustees announced their unanimous decision to change the name of the college. On July 1,2002, WMC officially became McDaniel College, honoring alumnus William Roberts McDaniel, the naming process during the spring of 2002 included input from students, faculty and alumni about possible names. Since Roger Casey, current McDaniel President, took office in 2010, over the same period, the enrollment decreased by 17%. In May 2016, Fitch Ratings revised its outlook for McDaniel from Stable to Negative, in June 2016 adjunct faculty at McDaniel voted to unionize. McDaniel is the second university in the state with collective bargaining for the part-time employees. Adjuncts are represented by Service Employees International Union Local 500, McDaniel College is a liberal arts school that is founded on having many majors to pick from. The administration as well as the students have worked together to create over sixty undergraduate majors, McDaniel also offers over one hundred different minors

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Maryland Terrapins football
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The Maryland Terrapins football team represents the University of Maryland, College Park in the sport of American football. The Terrapins compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Terrapins joined the Big Ten Conference on July 1,2014, following 62 years in the Atlantic Coast Conference as a founding member. The Terrapins are currently coached by D. J. Durkin. C, Maryland shares storied rivalries with Virginia and West Virginia. Maryland possesses the third-most ACC championships with nine, which places them behind Clemson, many former Terrapins players and coaches have gone on to careers in professional football including 16 first-round NFL Draft picks. In 1892, the then known as the Maryland Agricultural College fielded its first officially sanctioned college football team. They went scoreless in all three of that games, but the following year, posted a perfect record of 6–0. For the first two decades of the program, the team competed against local universities and high schools due to the prohibitive nature of long-distance travel at the time. Curley Byrd became head coach and held position for more than two decades until he was named the university president. In 1921, Maryland joined the Southern Conference where it remained for thirty years, Bryant resigned after one season when a player he had suspended was reinstated by President Byrd. Jim Tatum was hired in 1947, after a stint at Oklahoma where he had led the Sooners to a conference championship in his only season there. He was Marylands sixth head coach in eight years, but Tatum stayed for nine seasons, during his tenure, he led Maryland to two national championships, three conference championships, three perfect seasons, six top-20 final rankings, and five bowl game appearances. Seven of his players were named first-team All-Americans, including five consensus All-Americans, under Tatum, Maryland finished every season with a winning record. After the 1947 season, the Terrapins participated in their first bowl game, NCAA season-scoring leader Lu Gambino recorded all three Maryland touchdowns. In 1949, Maryland again played in the Gator Bowl, where they defeated 20th-ranked Missouri, the Terrapins finished the season ranked 14th by the Associated Press. Marylands current home field, Maryland Stadium, was constructed in 1950, Maryland started the 1950 season ranked 15th and defeated Navy, 35–21, in the Byrd Stadium dedication game. The Terrapins won the 1951 Southern Conference co-championship alongside the Virginia Military Institute and their perfect season culminated with an upset over first-ranked Tennessee in the 1952 Sugar Bowl. At the time, however, the wire services released their final rankings before the bowl games, several selectors, including analyst Jeff Sagarin, have retroactively credited Maryland with the national championship. In 1953, Maryland and six other schools split from the Southern Conference to form the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Terrapins were defeated by fourth-ranked Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl

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Old Byrd Stadium
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Old Byrd Stadium, also known as Byrd Stadium or Byrd Field and nicknamed the Byrd Cage, was the home stadium for the University of Maryland from 1923 until 1947. It was located in College Park, Maryland, east of Baltimore Avenue on the site of the schools present-day fraternity row, the seating capacity for the stadium was 5,000. In 1915, Harry Curley Byrd, head coach for what was then the Maryland Agricultural football team, at that time, the football team lacked any dedicated facilities and had one poorly suited athletic field on which to practice and play games. The new stadium was originally to be called the University of Maryland Athletic Field, the Board of Regents voted to name the stadium after Byrd, who was a former quarterback, the current coach, and future university president. The stadium was built by the H. D. Watts Construction Company, which was owned by Harry Watts, Construction was completed in 1923 at a cost of $60,000. The inaugural game was played against Randolph-Macon on September 29, which Maryland won, the stadium was officially dedicated on November 24, for the Homecoming game against Catholic. Maryland won that game as well, 40-6, in front of a crowd of 3,000, in 1944, Byrd Stadium hosted the first night game in College Park, which pitted the Terrapins against Hampden-Sydney College. During the 1948 season, the Terrapins played all of their games at Griffith Stadium in Washington. In 1950, the old stadium was replaced by the significantly larger Byrd Stadium, and the original stadium was razed in 1953

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Griffith Stadium
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Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D. C. from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street, and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW. An earlier wooden baseball park had built on the same site in 1891. It was called Boundary Field, or National Park as its occupants were then primarily by the nickname Nationals. The stadium was home to the American League Senators from 1911 through 1960, the venue hosted the All-Star Game in 1937 and 1956, as well as World Series games in 1924,1925, and 1933. It served as home for the Negro league Homestead Grays during the 1940s and it was also home to the Washington Redskins of the National Football League for 24 seasons, from the time they transferred from Boston in 1937 through the 1960 season. The ballpark was demolished in 1965 and the Howard University Hospital now occupies the site, on March 17,1911, Boundary Field, also known as National Park and American League Park, was destroyed by a fire started by a plumbers blowtorch. This left the owners of the Washington Senators in a situation, due to the fact that spring training had already begun. Noyes, president of the Senators, gained approval from the board of directors to build a new ballpark with a steel grandstand on the same site as Boundary Field. Opening Day 1911, the grandstand was sufficiently stable to host President William Howard Taft, construction of Griffith Stadium continued while the Senators were on the road, and was not completed until July 24,1911. The stadium was out at an angle within its block in the Washington street grid. Thus it was over 400 feet down the field line to the bleachers. The elevation of the grass playing field was approximately 100 feet above sea level. The Senators groundskeepers maintained a downhill slope from home plate to first base, however, Griffiths groundskeepers were still adept at keeping a fine sod field that was compared to that of the best golf courses. This was in sharp contrast to the field that can be seen in photographs of Griffith prior to 1923. For many years, the right field grandstand wall served as the foul line for the last 15 feet before the foul pole. The 41-foot tall, hand-operated scoreboard in right-center was in play, as was the National Bohemian beer sign, at one point in his youth, future MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was the operator of the scoreboard. The outfield seats in left and center field butted up against 5th Street, the football field ran along the third base line. Clark Griffith took advantage of this trend by making improvements in the stadium in 1920 and 1921

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Maryland Stadium
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Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. It is the home of the Maryland Terrapins football and mens lacrosse teams, the facility was formerly named Byrd Stadium after Harry Curley Byrd, a multi-sport athlete, football coach, and university president in the first half of the 20th century. In August 2006, naming rights were sold to Chevy Chase Bank, on December 11,2015, the Byrd Stadium name was removed, with the stadium being renamed Maryland Stadium. Byrd Stadium, constructed at a cost of $1 million, opened September 30,1950 in order to replace an older, for four decades, Maryland Stadium consisted of a horseshoe-shaped bowl with capacity of 34,680. In 1995, the capacity was raised to 48,055 through the addition of an upper deck on the north side of the stadium. In November 2001, as the team once again became an ACC-title contender. Those bleachers remain to this day, in 2002, a full-color video scoreboard was added in the east endzone and an expansion of the Gossett Football Team House was begun. Maryland Stadiums attendance record is 58,973, set on November 1,1975, the record was achieved with temporary seating for a game featuring the #14 Terps and #9 Penn State. The lone version of the Presidential Cup college football game was held here in December 1950. The USFL Baltimore Stars called the home in 1985. Maryland Stadium has also hosted the Division I NCAA Mens Lacrosse Championship ten times, on August 24,2006, the University of Maryland announced that it had agreed to a $20 million naming-rights deal with Chevy Chase Bank. The revenue from the deal was used to pay for renovations, on April 25,2007, the Athletic Department unveiled plans for a $50. The first phase of the plans has been completed and included renovating the old press tower. New mezzanine seating was added as well, bringing the capacity from 51,500 to 54,000, a second LED video board was installed on the west side of the stadium just before the 2008 season. The second phase is to add an 8,000 seat upper deck to the stadiums west end zone bringing total seating capacity to over 60,000 and this is dependent on the sale of all existing luxury suites from phase one. To date, no schedule for construction has been established, on June 20,2012, the Athletic Department announced plans for a new field at Byrd Stadium. It was the first installation of its kind in the United States, in 2015, the student government association agreed to a resolution in support of removing Byrd from the stadiums name because of Harry Curley Byrds segregationist history. On September 28,2015, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh appointed a task force to develop viewpoints, the ultimate decision on any name change rested with the Board of Regents

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Crab Bowl Classic
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The two institutions, located in close proximity in the state of Maryland, first met for a football game in 1905. Since then, the series has often been marked by controversy, the winner of the game is awarded the Crab Bowl Trophy. Navy dominated the series early by winning the first eight games, Maryland secured its first win in 1931 at a neutral site in Washington, D. C. After two more meetings, the series was suspended in 1934 when the Maryland administration protested a play, the teams met again in 1950 when Navy had a last-minute opening in its schedule. The Terrapins won three games from 1950 to 1952, and the Midshipmen won three from 1958 to 1963. During the 1964 game, a Maryland player twice flashed an obscene gesture, after contractual obligations were fulfilled with the following years game, the series was put on hiatus for 40 years. Maryland and Navy finally resumed the rivalry in 2005 and again in 2010, the Naval Academy and the University of Maryland are separated by about 30 miles in the state of Maryland. The schools by their nature, a Federal service academy and a university, differ radically in terms of culture. For many years, the University of Maryland possessed the reputation of a blue-collar, some students viewed the Naval Academy, with its strictly regimented culture, as elitist. A former Terrapins linebacker, Jerry Fishman, believed that many Midshipmen thought they were far superior to the Maryland redneck coal miners, a former Navy fullback, Pat Donnelly, said that compared to a public institution, was night and day. I think there was a feeling of dislike, but it wasn’t personal. According to former Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen, the sentiment at Navy has been that beating their archrival Army is a must, but Maryland is a necessity. Darryl Hill, who attended schools and broke the color barrier on each team, said that the Midshipmen had a saying that beating Army is great. Despite a lopsided start in the early 20th century, the Terps, between 1931 and 1965, Navy won six and Maryland five games. In the 2005 season opener, Navy was coming off one of its best seasons in history with a 10–2 record the previous year, Maryland struggled later in 2005, but proved a competitive match for Navy and achieved a last-minute win, 23–20. In addition to proximity and competitiveness, the rivalry was fueled by controversial incidents both on and off the field, Maryland supporters long held that Navy players used unnecessary roughness during play, a charge counter-accused by the Academy after the 1963 game. Some Midshipmen would travel to College Park to meet female students, pranks and vandalism were commonplace on both campuses and exacerbated the already tense situation between Maryland and Navy. On October 25,1905, the then known as the Maryland Agricultural Farmers traveled to Annapolis to meet the Navy Admirals for the first time

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Mighty Sound of Maryland
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The Mighty Sound of Maryland is the official marching band of the University of Maryland. It was founded in 1908 at what was known as the Maryland Agricultural College. The band performs pregame and halftime shows at all Maryland Terrapins football home games, for 50 years prior to 1909, the military-style college heard music by the Cadet Corps Drum and Buglers. Then, in 1909, the Maryland Agricultural College prevailed upon Mr. Levi G. Smith, the result was a 19-piece band, which set up in the barracks behind present day South Campus Dining Hall. It played exclusively for ROTC functions for its first year, but later branched out to other school, by 1927, three student bands were organized, and the bands were first recognized as an official student organization. Otto Siebeneichen, retired director of the U. S. Army Band, was appointed the first full-time director admitted to the faculty of the University of Maryland, in 1924, the old football stadium was built. It occupied the location where Fraternity Row now stands, the stadium was razed in 1953 so that construction of Frat Row could begin. Women were allowed in the bands for the first time in 1937. Mr. Frank V. Sykora, a graduate of the Imperial Russian Conservatory, during his tenure, the size of the bands grew to over 100 members and began extensive traveling. The Music Department at Maryland was established in 1954, led by Homer Ulrich, the university hired Ulrich as the first full-time band director to be member of the music faculty. Hubert Henderson, hired in 1955, established the band in the Music Department and integrated it as an ensemble in the music performance and he was assisted by associate directors Norman Heim, Henry Romersa and Acton Ostling, Jr. Queen Elizabeth visited the campus while touring the U. S. A. in 1957 and her visit was so important that the band was given $10,000 to purchase new uniforms to be used at the football game that she attended. Henderson left in 1965 and Ostling became the director of bands, John Wakefield was hired to work with Ostling as associate director. When Ostling left in 1968, Wakefield became the director of bands, with the help of associate directors Fred Heath, Jerry Gardner, Dieter Zimmer and L. Richmond Sparks, Wakefield has led the bands to the superior ensembles they are today. In August 2000, the bands moved from their old home of Tawes Fine Arts Building into the new state of the art Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. In September 2001, the new room was dedicated to Mr. John E. Wakefield, Director of Bands, in appreciation of all his hard work. In November of that year the Mighty Sound of Maryland marched in the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, during Early Week of 2006, band director L. Richmond Sparks introduced the idea of a volunteer trip to New Orleans to the band. The idea was met with enthusiasm and excitement, and on September 9,2006 the band played a New Orleans Tribute halftime show

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1892 Maryland Aggies football team
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The 1892 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College in the 1892 college football season. It was the first football team to represent the school. Maryland played three games, all of which it lost, and failed to any points. Halfback Pearse Shorty Prough gained the only positive yardage for the team against Episcopal High School and he netted 35 yards from scrimmage after first running 30 yards in the wrong direction. It remained the only winless Maryland team until matched by the 1967 squad coached by Bob Ward, teams composed mostly of MAC students were fielded in 1890 and 1891, but the 1892 squad was the first officially sponsored by the college. Dick Pue was elected captain as the member to return from the unofficial 1891 varsity. The Aggies opened the season against St. Johns College, which had fielded a team since 1885, the game was held on October 15 in Annapolis and attended by a large crowd. Many of the spectators had traveled to attend the Navy–Princeton game on the same day. Maryland was overmatched in all aspects and was routed by St. Johns, on November 5, the Aggies traveled by the B&O Railroad to face Johns Hopkins at Clifton Park in Baltimore. The heavier Hopkins team scored a touchdown in the games first 40 seconds on its way to a 62–0 victory, the Baltimore American judged Prough, Rollins, Strickler, and Worthington as Marylands best players of the game. Maryland closed the season against Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, Episcopal controlled the game and won, 16–0. According to later accounts from eyewitnesses described in King of American Football in 1952, episcopals school newspaper, the Monthly Chronicle wrote, Runs by Prof. Mead and Conrad were followed by Whaley dropping the ball, Prough picks it up and, forgetting himself, starts off for the wrong goal. He regains his self-possession, however, in time to turn and, by a pretty piece of running, the Chronicle added that Maryland showed an unaccreditable ignorance of football. The members of the 1892 team were, J. G. Bannon, end and he was the son of Maryland State Senator Michael Bannon. George H. Calvert, Jr. end/center, born October 2,1874, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, he graduated with a B. A. through the Classical Course in 1892. Calvert received from Columbian University a LL. B. in 1896 and a LL. M. in 1897, in January 1906, he became the director and secretary of the National Hotel Company in Washington, D. C. and was elected as its president. Barnes Compton, end, son of a wealthy Maryland plantation owner, he graduated in 1895 with a B. S. in the Scientific Course, Clifton E. Fuller, halfback/quarterback, a native of Cumberland, Maryland, he graduated in 1896